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Does taking part in Veganuary put people off meat in the long term? Here’s what the evidence shows

Humans have long wrestled with their conscience about killing and eating animals. The “meat paradox” (the conflict between people’s preference for meat and their concern for animals) may have inspired cave paintings from 37,000 years ago. Since then, many leading thinkers have eschewed meat, including Pythagoras, Leonardo da Vinci, Mary…

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What ancient Greek and Roman philosophers thought about vegetarianism

Writing in a letter to his friend Lucilius around AD62, the Roman philosopher Seneca outlined two arguments for vegetarianism. The first argument came from a Roman philosopher called Sextius whom Seneca particularly admired, who had lived in the first century BC and had been known for his simple lifestyle.

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30 Math Memes Only True Nerds Will Appreciate

Explore our hilarious collection of math memes that will make true nerds laugh! These funny gems use humor to brighten any math class! The post 30 Math Memes Only True Nerds Will Appreciate first appeared on Bored Panda.

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High school students who came up with 'impossible' proof of Pythagorean theorem discover 9 more solutions to the problem

In a new peer-reviewed study, Ne'Kiya Jackson and Calcea Johnson outlined 10 ways to solve the Pythagorean theorem using trigonometry, including a proof they discovered in high school.

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'The beauty of symbolic equations is that it's much easier to … see a problem at a glance': How we moved from words and pictures to thinking symbolically

"Even the +, −, =, and × signs we take for granted only came into widespread use in the 17th century. Which means that the earlier algebraists we know of … all had expressed their equations mostly in words or pictorial word images"

LiveScience

Can you solve it? Do you think like an engineer?

A curious cup and some wacky wheels

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Planets' striking gravitational dance

Exoplanets, or planets outside the solar system, show striking examples of resonance

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The 10 biggest science stories of 2023 – chosen by scientists

From insight into our human ancestry and breakthroughs on the moon to a flourishing of AI and terrifying new developments in the climate, it was a year of scientific drama

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Singing the ancient hymn of the Big Bang

Each experiment like this allows physicists to tease out the properties of the early cosmos after the Big Bang

Salon

How to Be: Lessons from the Early Greeks by Adam Nicolson review – ancient wisdom for today’s world

A self-help book of sorts, this distillation of pre-Socratic philosophy succeeds in being both populist and profound

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The wrong angle on Pythagoras’s theorem

Letters: Catherine Scarlett responds to an article about US teenagers who claim to have proved Pythagoras’s theorem using trigonometry

The Guardian - UK

Sutton proves satire’s not dead as Beale takes bait hook, line and sinker

SATIRE is dead. A saying that both evokes a sense of I got here first, and didn’t someone say that a thousand years ago? Live long enough and…

The National (Scotland)

Did you solve it? Puzzles for blockheads

Were you a Clevor Trever? The solutions to today’s puzzles

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How one Ancient Greek thinker revolutionized math — and possibly started a cult

Most people don’t remember math class, but they do remember Pythagoras. Now, more than 2,500 years after his time, we dive into his hidden history as a possible cult leader.

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‘Brisbane has come of age’: the queer and migrant artists helping shed the city’s ‘cringe’

Artists who once endured racism and homophobia in Queensland are bringing exciting new works celebrating their stories to the 2022 Brisbane festival

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